This statue must have been in storage somewhere to be so oxidized. I think it a "Sign of the Times" that it has been put up. I was very much concerned that the past turmoil esp. of the last year would open the door to Kuchma's coming out of the shadows and it is unfortunate that those concerns are being more and more realized. I wonder when he will come back to stand into political office?

The is a perfectly good explanation why it is already green (not in tribute to Kermit the Frog and not as I thought that it had been in storage) but because it seems that the statue is NOT made of bronze but of plaster.

The guy with the arm in the election ads isn't the (apparently former member of the Roman Senate) Leonid Danil'ich, but his former crony, Volkov, who looks a lot like Dukalis from "Ulitsa razbytykh fonarei!"

Thankfully, some local gladiators have already wasted him. Aside from being a joke, this piece of “antiquity” was a disgrace to the community — a sculpture blown out of proportion to its living prototype’s anatomy and achievements.

Moreover, this Caligula-like chimera desecrates the very Pax Sovietica electorate that the KUCHMA bloc targets in its campaign.

Kuchma lovers put him right next to the burial place of Soviet soldiers who died liberating Kyiv and defending its people. Today, Kuchma only has his family’s possessions to defend. Under his rule (1994-2004), the Ukrainian people shrank by almost 5 million, which can be compared to Ukraine’s WW II demographic losses.

Gross!

Luida,

Kuchma is no Energizer Bunny. Don’t be afraid of him. He is history. And I hope he won’t make it to heaven.

Kuchma called заробітчани "prostitutes", as you recall. He did absolutely nothing for those people who left Ukraine to try to live, but he called them prostitutes.

What an enormous change there is this year, when during the televised debates you see Yatseniuk and others openly discussing what the government can do to improve economic conditions in Ukraine so that Ukrainians can come home.

Kuchma's "prostitutes" can come home. I wonder what Kuchma thinks about that? Or if he even gives one millisecond of thought to it?